Better Men, Better Ballplayers

89 - Garrett Baker: Inspiration Academy (FL)

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Bio

  • Player development coordinator for Inspiration Academy (Bradenton, FL) (Summer of 2021)
  • American International College pitching/recruiting coordinator, and assisted S&C (Fall of 2018)
  • Westfield State University pitching and S&C (2017)
  • Independent Baseball (empire league (NH), and Pecos league (AR))
  • Undergraduate in Exercise science and Masters Degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology



    • Topics

    • Starting with a breathing exercise and routine based warm up
  • Meetings in small groups
  • Skill emerges through my mental capacity
  • Lets envision the best practice we possibly have!
  • Check in with yourself and see if you are checking into thoughts in the past or future, and we need to get rid of them to have our best practice
  • Signal lights - red, yellow, and green
    • Green light I go
  • Yellow light I need to be cautious, so be aware
  • Red light I need to stop before I spin out of control
  • Get rid of the red thoughts
    • 4 box - inhale 4, exhale, 
  • Physical helps me wipe it away
  • Final thought helps me get back to now and action
  • Practice on the mound, and in the actual place
  • Having the process in play and practicing it each day
  • Same verbiage with hitting coach to discuss the mental skills
  • The ability to bring yourself back to the moment will help be a better person and ballplayer
  • Just notice the thought to bring yourself back to the moment
  • If you are not locked into a drill, perform the mindfulness training to continue that skill
  • Players need ownership in their own routines
  • Need to have a routine of when things are not going to well
    • Do something physical
  • Take break
  • Mental thought!
  • Allowing freedom and learn themselves
  • Movement challenge
    • Somewhat based on assessment
  • Encourage the body in a different way
  • Blend a water bag with throwing to develop a pattern
  • Assessment looking at indicators
    • Back leg
  • Front leg
  • Glove arm
  • Throw arm
  • Rotation
  • Capture trunk
  • Trunk into arm
  • Universal movements that are within everybody
  • 2 days very individualize and 3 days of team workout
  • Learning all movement patterns within team workout
  • Guys given option for movement prep before game
  • Savage pitching certification
  • We can stabilize movements without thoughts
  • Your body is interested it can use in multiple ways
  • Mid week bullpen is all water bag bled throwing to targets
  • 3 prescribed drills to pitching
  • Basketball throw - treat the arm as an extension of the body (goalie throw)
    • And blend with plyo/baseball
  • “Success” is when the drill helps capture the movement
  • The on field matters - and we will evaluate based on how they perform
  • In game we do not want to have thoughts, and training within this environment by allowing the body to feel the force
  • Encouraging the movement, by providing the outside force and stabilize to be in your best spot
  • Create the best movers while ensuring the workload is there
  • Your body adapts to the stress it gets put on it
  • Movement madness Monday - movement challenges to be adaptable 
  • PVC Game
    • Drop pvc pipe as low you can
  • Challenging movement system 
  • Mimics sport
  • Swipe up and swipe down and you have to either jump or squat down
  • Minimal jerk, minimal joint motion, minimal processing
    • Maximize everything
  • Recovery movement circuit
    • Walking in a squat
  • Different lunge/squat in 15 yards
  • Crawling
  • The lizard
  • Spine work
  • Arm movements, low intensity easy movement
  • Wrist clinics
  • What matters is listening to the player because you can’t push the system that is already overloaded
  • Have a framework to work off of
  • Twitter and Instagram - @coachgbaker  
  • [email protected]



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